Merry Christmas to Everyone

Christmas is finally here........ I have presents under the tree and I am enjoying my morning coffee and reading emails, just waiting for my son to wake up. This is the first Christmas in a long time I will not be spending the morning with my son, Jake. He is all grown up and has moved out. It was hard at first, but now its okay. We are having a quite day today. Last night our family came over to spend the evening. We had a really good time. I baked and cooked all day Saturday and Sunday to prepare the food. Our menu was just good old snacking foods. We had sausage in bbq sauce, sausage cheese balls, spinach filled pasta with a tomato pesto, Rotel/cheese/shrimp dip and a meat and cheese tray for sandwiches. I also baked cookies, made peanut butter bon bons, fudge, and chex mix, both the sweet and the hot kinds. I made wassil, my children love this new tradition I started a few years back. All and all everyone had a great time. We also exchanged presents with Russ' children and our grandbaby. That's him up top. His first Christmas he racked up at our house. We made him a beautiful toy box and bought him several other things. He loves to open presents so I made sure to wrap a bunch for him. Merry Christmas and May God bless....

A Sleepy Little Cajun Town

A Sleeping Little Cajun Town overview Its a bird, Its a plane, Its Santa Clause

A Tour of Carolina Street Carolina Street Moving down Carolina Street The End of Carolina Street

The Hebert House at the end of Carolina Street

Carolers braving the cold

The Skating Rink

Playground Fun

Evan's Hardware Store

Church Street

Town Square with center Playground

Keeping Watch

Honest, Santa, I've been a good boy!!!! Harry, Ron and Heromine drop in for a spell.. Commuter Express

Crystal Gardens Conservatory

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Ha, you missed me!!

And I want a pony, and a train and a...

I'm a Plain ole Cup of Joe

I'm a Plain Ole Cup of Joe

But don't think plain - instead think, uncomplicated You're a low maintenance kind of girl... who can hang with the guys Down to earth, easy going, and fun! Yup, that's you: the friend everyone invites. And your dependable too. Both for a laugh and a sympathetic ear.

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A Few more Antique Cars

CRUISIN THE COAST 2006 - Mississippi Gulf Coast

Burn Out Alley. The people just sit around and watch the cars burn out. Some even hold up signs with numbers 1-10 rating your burn out.

Can't you just picture Burt Reynolds and Sally Fields in this Trans Am!!! Beautiful turquoise paint job. I don't know my makes and models, but I can tell you about the paint jobs. Words can not describe this!!!!! Studebaker. If you want to see what's in the front see, look at the blog entry after this one.

I would hate to pay the gas for this one. A Hurst edition Cutlass, if I remember correctly. You can also see a fast back behind this one. This is not an antique, but found it interesting because the paint job on this car is actually a fabric bra. I thought it was really neat.

A few more painted bras

I wish this were mine.

My Lucy Belle. She hated the wind blowing in her ears. Once I covered them she was content to ride.

Interesting...... very interesting......

Really nice paint job.

The Pink Panther. Look closely under the hood in this picture and the next to see why its called that.

Cool huh.....

Too Cute!!!

Vince Vance - Whatever?????

Katrina's Ghost - This car spent days under 14 feet of water, mud and appliances after hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, according to the poster on the windshield. The owner claims after he cleaned it up and replaced all the fluids, it started right up.

Here's my baby girl one more time.

A Wonderful Weekend

Russ and Matt on the Set of Big Boy Toyz with our 66 Cutlass

We were in Biloxi Mississippi this past weekend for the Cruisin the Coast Car Rally. It was the 10 year anniversary, well actually it has been 11 years since the first, but Hurricane Katrina caused a cancellation last year. I was very happy with the number of cars that showed up. Not nearly as many as pre Katrina but still a good number of cars. This rally is so much fun. I would guess about 2000 antique cars converged on the Gulf Coast and just cruised up and down Beach Boulevard all day long. At night there is live entertainment, some of them in the casinos, some at bandstands set up along the cruise route and even some set up in trailers as makeshift dj's in parking lots. I just love looking at all the old cars and the awesome paint jobs. Russ and my son, Matt, volunteered to be part of a tv program that was being filmed. Our car will be one of the many featured. Russ was interviewed by the host. The only drawback is we don't catch the channel it will be airing on. Oh well, I have pictures and they will be sending us a copy of the show. Here are some more pictures of the cars we encountered.

A fine glittery paint job. Talk about shine......

I like the red cars... I don't even know what make and model this is....

Pretty Little Stang

This is just too sick. This is what is sitting in the passenger seat of one of the cars.

And another

and more......

This is a REPRODUCTION car, a Barracuda that was auctioned off for 100,000.00.

More Later.......